
CNN
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Just six days after he broke the indoor 3,000-meter world record, US middle-distance star Grant Fisher was once again celebrating on Friday, as he smashed the 5,000-meter indoor world record to cap off a dream week.
Fisher, who won two bronze medals at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, shattered the previous mark in the men’s 5,000m by almost six seconds in Friday’s race at the BU David Hemery Valentine Invitational in Boston.
He crossed the line in a time of 12:44.09 to break the 21-year-old world record set by Ethiopia’s Kenenisa Bekele in 2004.
That effort came just six days after Fisher broke the 3,000-meter indoor world…